Ellis County residents no longer need to quarantine after they return from any place on the quarantine list maintained by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, which includes 23 counties in Colorado.
Without taking a vote, Ellis County Commissioners Dean Haselhorst, Butch Schlyer and Neal Younger voiced consensus support at their Monday evening meeting for no longer enforcing the quarantine requirement.
They made that move at the request of Jason Kennedy, director of Ellis County Health Services, who called the KDHE's travel quarantine list an "unenforceable government mandate that just doesn't make sense for Ellis County."
Kennedy noted that the KDHE last week added the state of Colorado to the list, which it has in place as part of its efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19.